Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: net-tools
The manpage of ifconfig clearly states:
Since net-tools 1.60-4 ifconfig is printing byte counters and human
readable counters with IEC 60027-2 units. So 1 KiB are 2^10 byte. Note,
the numbers are truncated to one decimal (which can by quite a large
error if you consider 0.1 PiB is 112.589.990.684.262 bytes :)
Still, my current ifconfig gives me:
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:08:d3:05:23:0c
inet addr:172.19.3.3 Bcast:172.19.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
inet6 addr: fe80::208:d3ff:fe05:230c/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2592640 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2322789 errors:998 dropped:998 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:105271 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:2617519809 (2.4 GB) TX bytes:969817396 (924.8 MB)
Interrupt:17 Base address:0x8000
2617519809 bytes means 2.6 GB or 2.4 GiB. But 2.4 GB is completely incorrect.
Either fix the package or fix the man-page. I included a patch that should give
correct behavior.
** Affects: net-tools (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Ifconfig uses incorrect units
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/240073
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